Truth is a deadly weapon, Lady said.

Glen Cook


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I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks.

Glen Cook


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I am haunted by the clear knowledge that, in the end, evil always triumphs.

Glen Cook

Tags: evil war



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I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another man. A stripling, filled with the foolish ignorances of youth. Yeah. Sometimes you lie to yourself just to keep going.

Glen Cook

Tags: illusions youth



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...let the gods distinguish between the wiched and the merely incompetent.

Glen Cook


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Justice has nothing to do with it. Stark, bloody, screaming, agonizing vendeance is what I'm talking about.

Glen Cook


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Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.

Glen Cook


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There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

Glen Cook

Tags: morality evil ambiguity good



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She came and she went, in sorrow for the death of dreams, and she came no more.

Glen Cook

Tags: sorrow



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You feel guilty. You wonder why him and not me, then you're glad it was him and not you, then you feel guilty. Soldiers live. And wonder why.

Glen Cook

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